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Talent Strategy: ‘It’s About Being Intentional’

Chief Executive

Many companies were caught off guard by Covid, by the need to scale down and then back up quickly, and by the mass resignations during and after the pandemic’s peak. And the already significant fixed costs of adding staff are only getting steeper. The way she knows it’s working? “We Verizon seems to be in the minority.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

Chief Executive

But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.